Re: [RFA v3] enable/disable sub breakpoint range

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 17:02:17 +0100
> 
> > What if I have, in addition to the 1.1-1.5 breakpoints also
> > breakpoints 4, 5, and 6 -- how do I disable 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 4, and 5?
> > Do I have to say something like "disable 1.3-5.0"?
> 
> I hope not.  Supposedly you could do it with:
> 
>   (gdb) delete 1.3 1.4 1.5 4 5

This basically means I need to give up the ranges?  Too bad.

> I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be better to expand this section
> of the manual:
> 
>  @cindex breakpoint ranges
>  @cindex breakpoint lists
>  @cindex ranges of breakpoints
>  @cindex lists of breakpoints
>  Some @value{GDBN} commands accept a space-separated list of breakpoints
>  on which to operate.  A list element can be either a single breakpoint number,
>  like @samp{5}, or a range of such numbers, like @samp{5-7}.
>  When a breakpoint list is given to a command, all breakpoints in that list
>  are operated on.

Yes, I think so.  With a cross-reference to the "Set Breaks" section,
where the .loc thing is explained.